Well, I think I mentioned before about my dear Gibson ES-135 that I named Jeff (despite my jokey post about naming all of my guitars, it only stuck with this one). And that he needed a tuning head fixed or replaced and the same with his toggle switch. I’d been […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
128 posts
Realized I’ve actually managed to do a shitload of writing in the last week or so. Now if only some of these chunks lined up into full songs. Oh well. Of course, the dumb thing is that I have one album fully written and two-thirds-finished in terms of recording, another […]
Forgot to post last week as I was getting organized for CiTR’s FunDrive and my show during it. Anyway, here’s a few tunes I’ve been listening to over the last couple weeks: Kill City Kids: “It’s A Baby”: I think I forgot to post this when it was released a […]
Kyria Abrahams on women who must draw attention to their womanliness in unrelated endeavors. Funny/bitchy sidenote #1: since taking up guitar and starting to hang around with hard rock dudes (and, to a lesser extent, hipsters), I almost never get the “OMG, you’re a girl and you do XYZ!” nonsense […]
First of all, I forgot this one from last week’s list, so here it is now: Virtual Terrorist: “Killer [1990 Radutron remix by the Rabid Whole]”: I actually mastered this EP, and I wouldn’t say I’m the greatest mastering engineer but hey, Fragments turned out pretty good so I think […]
![Ramones interview [YouTube screenshot]](https://maqlu.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ramonesint.jpg)
After meaning to rewrite my bio for at least six or seven months, I finally got around to it tonight. It’s a bit tongue in cheek as hey, the next album’s still a ways out and this blog is currently more about what I’m listening to than what I’m doing […]
Just got in from a jog, which coming back from last fall’s shin injury is really still code for a walk in which I occasionally throw in a couple jogging intervals. Anyway, my last interval would normally be a lazy slow jog because why not, except just prior to it […]
![Izzy Stradlin audio interview [YouTube screenshot]](https://maqlu.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/izzyint.jpg)
Talking songwriting with Axl and trying to get a manager when you’re a bit of a mess. Not sure when this was done.
Well, as I’ve been mentioning a few times over the last couple months, I’ve been waiting for Zakk Wylde’s acoustic show at the Commodore here in Vancouver. And Thursday was the day. (A bit late in posting as I was having some weird photo syncing issues between my iPhone and […]
![Guns N Roses 'Paradise City' [YouTube screenshot]](https://maqlu.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/20140212-193533.jpg)
Still regularly waking up with L.A. Guns’ “Electric Gypsy” in my head, but since that’s been covered in a recent “tracks of the week,” let’s go with another L.A. Guns song that jumped out at me this week: L.A. Guns: “Snake Eyes Boogie”: Particularly the line “They’d all like to […]
Every so often I get asked about new promo photos. They’re coming, for real. But in the meantime, here’s a couple quick selfies I snapped this afternoon in my jam space:
Well, OK, it’s been a month, but still. Found this one in the back lot, where it’s been annoying me for a couple nights. Looked inside and saw the ignition busted out, so I called the police to report it, and while they didn’t say it was stolen per se, […]